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* debian/patches/ubuntu-en_ZA-decimal.patch:
Dropped to make dot and not comma the decimal sep. (LP: #1090288).
-- Gunnar HjalmarssonWed,
Thanks Gunnar! Uploaded.
** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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Title:
The locale file for en_ZA
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** Patch added: "drop-en_ZA-patch.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1090288/+attachment/4206477/+files/drop-en_ZA-patch.patch
** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu)
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Martin Pitts comment on IRC:
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2014/09/15/%23ubuntu-desktop.html#t14:41
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Title:
The locale file for en_ZA appears to have
While the blog post you linked to notes the Ubuntu specific patch, it's
wrong about the main reason why it was applied. As is stated in bug
#887395 it was for consistency reasons, considering that qt applications
were claimed to use comma as the decimal separator in case of an en_ZA
locale.
That,
I am still trying to find a source on this but may have to actually get
into contact with the NMISA (National Metrology Institute of South
Africa) organization. Apparently they are preparing an update of the
regulation to be gazetted in 2014 that will indicate that both the comma
and decimal point
I don't think there is a source that will support my claim except that every
South African uses the decimal point for currency and numeric values, even on
legal documents. There is a government editorial style guide which the Ubuntu
team apparently followed here (this document does not different
Just to amend my previous post again, perhaps I shouldn't say that every
South African uses the decimal point, but certainly the majority does,
including the government themselves.
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On 2014-07-23 14:11, Don Schoeman wrote:
> Although the official format for currency specifies that a ","
> (comma) be used as decimal seperator the same rule does not apply to
> standard numbers.
Is there an official source supporting your claim that a dot should be
used as the decimal separator
I posted a bit too fast as there is more to this. Although the official
format for currency specifies that a "," (comma) be used as decimal
seperator the same rule does not apply to standard numbers. This means
that the LC_NUMERIC section indeed have a bug as it stands.
LC_NUMERIC
% "."
decimal_po
First of all, the locale file in question confuses people because the
comments are incorrect. I think it may have been updated at some point
and the comments weren't updated.
That being said, officially, the decimal seperator for South Africa is
actually a comma and not a full stop, for example th
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Fabio: It would be nice if, when triaging bugs, you at least took the
time to look up which package owns a given file! The bug report
specifically refers to /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_ZA, which is owned by
the locales binary package, built by langpack-locales.
** Package changed: console-setup (U
** Package changed: ubuntu => console-setup (Ubuntu)
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a
specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu
in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source
packages so that people
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